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🍣 What’s new in Pittsburgh food and drink this month

Newsletter for Thursday, Mar 01 2018

In like a lion

Dick's Sporting Goods, which has its headquarters in Coraopolis, announced three major changes to the firearms it sells. The stores will no longer sell assault-style firearms and high-capacity magazines and won't sell guns to people under 21. Dick's CEO Edward W. Stack said the company was moved to act after learning that Nikolas Cruz bought a shotgun at a Dick's in November. That gun however, was not used in the shooting in Parkland Fla, reported the Washington Post. The move, celebrated by some, drew criticism given that the company discontinued sales of assault-style rifles from Dick's stores following the shooting at Shandy Hook Elementary School, but later started selling the firearms again at Dick's chain Field & Stream, per the Post.

Yvonne Campos wants Pittsburgh to be a top city for women entrepreneurs. After all, everything needed is here — there just needs to be more of it. And that's why she launched the Next Act Fund, an angel investing fund focused on women-led businesses and women investors in 2016. Since then, the fund has roughly 40 investors and has given funds to two, soon to be three, companies. Read more about the fund and two upcoming panels where you can learn more.

In her quest to revive the Pittsburgh Marathon, Mi­chele Fet­ting fought naysayers and even survived cancer. And now with the race coming up on its 10th anniversary, a Post-Gazette profile of Fetting shows just how far it's come. It describes Fetting's revival process — everything from working with mayors to bringing companies and sponsors on board — as a labor of love as the race grew into what it is today, with 10,000 par­tic­i­pants in three races plus a wheel­chair di­vi­sion now draws 40,000 run­ners in six events over race week­end. “I thought it was go­ing to be my leg­acy for my kids, their mem­ory of me,” Fetting told the PG. “I wanted them to see that it was pos­si­ble to make the world a bet­ter place, even if it was some­thing small like a mar­a­thon.”

Featured Event

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The Incline Likes

Downtown saw the most new food and drink openings in the past month, welcoming a casual bar, a seafood lunch spot, a beloved bakery and a food hall. In Lawrenceville, a once-roving pizza shop established roots and a French restaurant moved in, while next door, the renowned Morcilla is closed for renovations after a massive flood. Here's what's opening, what's closing and what's on the horizon.

If it feels like all you've been seeing on Twitter lately is people complaining about potholes, you're probably right. A map compiled by Gearheads.org ranks Pennsylvania fourth in the country in #pothole complaints on Twitter. The site says it pulled geotagged tweets over the last 30 days — more than 100,000 tweets in total — that included mentions of potholes and found 9,800 tweets from Pennsylvania, 41 percent of which came from Pittsburgh and 21 percent of which came from Philly.